The accompanying three documents give a (substantially) complete record of present difficulties with certain faculty committees—the Academic Senate and the Core Curriculum Committee—and with the College administration, which threaten, in the unanimous view of the Program’s tutors, Integral’s ability to continue in its long-standing role as an alternative liberal arts curriculum, devoted entirely to the great books.

These difficulties have developed in four broad phases.

(I) May, 2012 – May, 2013: failed negotiations with the College’s Core Curriculum Committee, in the course of which the Committee asserted authority over broad parts of the Integral Curriculum, and sought to conform the Program to the model of a “major” under the Core Curriculum.

(IV) September, 2014 – present: the College’s Provost disallowed the operative parts of S-13/14-46 on September 17, 2014, and over the subsequent months, the Program has sought to have the Senate revisit the issue under terms set by the Provost; the Senate has so far failed to act.

The three accompanying documents set out the Program’s actions in each phase.

This document is fundamental to the Program’s position. It consists in an historical overview and a presentation of the Program’s case (29pp.), followed by eight Appendices (I – VIII), which document the case.

This is a statement read into the record of the April 29, 2015 Meeting of the Academic Senate by the Program’s Director (who is also an elected Senator at Large). It details the failure the Senate to come to terms with the Provost’s “veto” of S-13/14-46.

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Documents on the State of the Program

Dear Integral Reader:

At the link below you may find documentation giving a (substantially) complete record of present difficulties with certain faculty committees—the Academic Senate and the Core Curriculum Committee—and with the College administration, which threaten, in the unanimous view of the Program’s tutors, Integral’s ability to continue in its long-standing role as an alternative liberal arts curriculum, devoted entirely to the great books.

Andrew Nguyen Valedictorian

Valedictorian Andrew Nguyen ’15—chief photographer for The Collegian, three-year resident advisor, Integral Program student, co-chair of Asian Cultural Night—was asked by a close friend a few weeks ago, “Do you think we did college right?” “Yes, I think we did it right,” Nguyen said. Read the full article